2026-11-03 –, Jasmine Stage 4
We'll introduce the Security Hub, explore the coordination challenges facing Ethereum security, and share what TheDAO aims to achieve through the ETHSecurity Initiatives Round. The audience will also get to test live voting on initiatives using Blossom Budgeting and help identify which security efforts deserve more attention and funding.
How can we better coordinate Ethereum security efforts and make sure the right work gets funded?
In this session, we'll introduce the Security Hub at Devcon, discuss the coordination challenges facing Ethereum security, and share what TheDAO aims to achieve through the ETHSecurity Initiatives Round.
We'll also invite the audience to experiment with live voting on initiatives in the round using Blossom Budgeting, exploring how we can collectively identify priorities and direct funding where it's needed most.
Communications Lead at TheDAO Security Fund
Sem is a hacker and Ethereum security researcher with roots in the early cypherpunk movement. An early DarkWallet contributor and creator of EVMcrispr, he has spent over a decade exploring the boundaries of decentralized systems, from privacy-preserving wallets and DAO governance to smart contract security, EVM scripting and simulation, and unconventional onchain fund recovery.
Leading TheDAO Security Fund, putting $150M to work for improving Ethereum security.
Co-founder of Giveth, Dappnode & many other projects.
Top Steward in Arbitrum, Gitcoin, ENS & Optimism & member of the Arbitrum & ENS Security Councils.
Supported countless white hat actions spanning the last decade including cleaning up after TheDAO hack, rescuing $200M+ in the 1st Parity Multisig hack & helping to freeze $70M+ stolen by DPRK in the LayerZero/rsETH hack.
DAOing my heart out since 2015.